Tales of a TravellerPutnam, 1849 - 456 Seiten |
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Abruzzi adventure Alderman Apennines beauty beheld Bianca bosom Buckthorne burgher buried captain carbine carriage chamber companions countenance cried daugh daughter delight devil divining rod door doubt dress Englishman eyes face fancy father feel fellow felt Fondi fortune Frosinone gave gazed Genoa ghost hand haunted head heard heart horse improvisatore inquisitive gentleman Iron John Jack Straw Kidd kind knew laugh length literary looked Marquis melancholy mind mountains Naples neighborhood never night once passed paused Peechy Prauw Pelasgian pistol poetical poetry poniard poor Popkins postilions Prossedi recollect replied returned robbers rocks round scene Schiedam seemed seen skiff stiletto story strange talk tell Terracina theatre thing thought tion Tom Walker took town travellers trees turned Tusculum uncle village voice walked Webber whole window Wolfert wonder young lady
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Seite 161 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Seite 384 - She had probably attempted to deal with the black man as she had been accustomed to deal with her husband; but though a female scold is generally considered a match for the devil, yet in this instance she appears to have had the worst of it. She must have died game, however; for it is said Tom noticed many prints of cloven feet deeply stamped about the tree, and found handfuls of hair, that looked as if they had been plucked from the coarse black shock of the woodman.
Seite 141 - I found that my quiet retreat was absolutely a "show house!" the tower and its contents being shewn to strangers at sixpence a head. There was a perpetual tramping up stairs of citizens and their families, to look about the country from the top of the tower, and to take a peep at the city through the telescope, to try if they could discern their own chimnies.